Vietnam confirms 21 imported cases, including an Indian expert
VOV.VN - Twenty-one people, including an Indian citizen, have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus after entering Vietnam, the Ministry of Health (MoH) announced in its 18.00hrs update on April 15.
The Indian expert, 38, boarded EK392 flight from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Vietnam’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on April 13, and was quarantined upon his arrival.
He tested positive the following day and was transferred to HCM City-based Cu Chi field hospital for medical surveillance and treatment.
Eighteen other patients are Vietnamese citizens who returned from the Philippines, Japan, the UAE, Qatar, Thailand, Japan and Angola from late March to April 14.
Only two patients crossed the Long Binh International Bordergate in Long An province into southern Vietnam.
All the returnees tested positive during their stay in concentrated quarantine facilities, thus posing no risk to the community, said the MoH.
The number of the new patients has raised the national count to 2,758, including 1,570 locally transmitted infections.
As many as 2,445 patients have been discharged from hospital after making a full recovery from the disease.
Of the remaining cases in health facilities, 52 have tested negative for the virus at least once.
